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/• Mm columns will ka frmmi $ fair presentation H bed and county newt 0f general interest. Volume XI. —Number 51. Het|||j %AAtAjtmcUL S3f ArVD MANY I OF ’EM! We've been searching for a little different way Pfc; of expressing our Seasons Greeting to our friends, for words that would convey the true feeling we have in our hearts. There ore lots of fancy phroses and we tried some of them out. But somehow they just didn't get the job done. Every time we come bock to the tried and prov en formula—" Merry Christmas." «■* It's a time-worn phrase, and many times ex pressed without feeling. But to us, it is the only op- i propriate sentiment. It, above all others, carries the true spirit of the occasion. So, we'll look no more for fancy phrases—Merry Christmas. figl THE HERALD PUBLISHERS t — -*- 1 " 1 Chowan Maintains Perfect Record In War Bond Drives Campen Reports Sixth; War Loan Over Quo ta By $60,000 Chowan County maintained i is'. re-! .mrd of mooting war bond quotas, j •ver-smbseribing the Sixth War I.oan j junta of $348,000 by approximately | >60,000. This information was re-1 ieased early this week by J. (!. Campen, chairman of the Chowan | County W ar Finance Committee, who ! at various times during the closing days of the drive, entertained some j doubt as to whether the county’s quo ta would be met. Air. Campen also .stated that with some reports still to Come in, he has been assured that the Series E bond quota of $61,000 will be met and slightly oversubscribed. Though no little concerned over the success of the drive, Mr. Campen this week was vei *much elated over the final outcome and desires to ex-j press his appreciation to the various l canvassers lor their splendid work, , as well as to Chowan people as a i whole who purchased bonds and thus helped the county to maintain a per-j feet record. Candle Light Service I On Christmas Eve At Presbyterian Church The Rev. D. C. Crawford, Jr., pas- ; tor of the Presbyterian Church, an- i nounces a midnight candlelight ser vice in the church on Christmas Eve i (Sunday night) starting at 11:45 o’clock. An appropriate program has been planned, which will carry out! the Christmas story, a feature being special music by a girls’ chorus, which will render Christmas anthems. j The public is cordially invited, and a special invitation is extended to service people and their families to attend this service. SL Paul’s Re-elects Vestry For New Year At the annual parish meeting of St. Paul’s Church on Sunday, the en tire vestry was re-elected for anoth er year. According to reports from the various organizations presented during the meeting, the church is In a flourishing condition, which de lighted the new rector, the Rev. 'larold Gilmer. D. M. Warren, senior warden of le church, reported on proposed plans for the rehabilitation of the church, which claimed the interest of all present. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY |_Still Growing_J Contributions are still coming in to the Chowan County Hospi tal Fund, and any who desire to make a contribution may do so | either at the Bank of Edenton or in the Chamber of Commerce office in the Municipal Building. Chairman I). M. Warren de sires to put out a reminder that contributions to a hospital are deductible from the 1944 income tax return. The fund is now f nearing the SIOO,OOO mark in way of individual contributions. New Chapel At Base Be Dedicated To Late Lt.-Col Chester Peters i Because of the sincere interest I the late Lieut.-Col. Chester J. j Peters had in obtaining a chapel at S the local Marine Corps Air Station, i the new station chapel will be dedi cated in his honor and named the Peters Memorial Chapel. Services are now being held in the chapel, ! ! which will be formally dedicated j when the second unit is completed. Christmas Music At i Baptist Church Sunday Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock the j. Edenton Baptist Church will have its ! annual program of Christmas music, the choir under the direction of Mrs. M. A. Hughes having prepared a pro | gram which will be in keeping with ! the Yuletide season. The public is invited. Colored Man Held For Forging Checks i Frank C. Anthony, colored, was ! found guilty of forgery in Recorder’s Court Friday morning and was bound ! over by Judge Marvin Wilson for j trial in Superior Court. Anthony is ! still in jail in lieu of furnishing a SSOO bond. Anthony was charged with forging seven checks, totaling $163.50. on Watt B. White. PRIVATE JAMES HASSELL IS REPORTED MISSING OVERSEAS i Mr. and Mrs. George Hassell of j the Macedonia section, were notified by the War Department Tuesday af ternoon that their son, Private James Hassell, was reported missing. The last time Mr. and Mrs. Hassell heard from their son he was in England. He has been overseas but a very short time. TOWN OFFICES CLOSE TUESDAY Town offices will be closed both Monday and Tuesday in celebration of the Christmas holidays. The of fice will open as usual Wednesday morning. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 21, 1944. White Man Jailed While Attempting! ; To Collect Money I Roy Pierce, 28, Poses as Collector For Red Cross 1 Roy Pierce, 28-year-old white man, was arrested Monday, charged with false pretense, begging and vagran cy. Pierce was arrested by Chief of Police J. R. Tanner and Sergeant R. L. Pratt, when he was found calling at houses and asking for money. He represented himself as a veteran of the present war and said that he had been discharged after being wounded in Italy. Pierce, according to the offiers, pretended to be soliciting money for the Red Cross for the purpose of | sending presents to boys but after calling at six houses, l caused his own undoing when he ! happened to call at the home of Of ficer Pratt, When arrested, he ad mitted, officers said, that he was at tempting to secure money for his own use. Services Next Week At St. Paul’s Church Services at St. Paul’s Church dur ing next week have been announced by the rector, the Rev. Harold Gil mer. as follows: Sunday, December 21 -- Fourth Sunday in Advent—B:oo a. ir. The Holy Communion, Plain Celebration; 9:110 a. m., Church School; 9:45 a. m., Men’s class: 11:00 a. m., Office of morning prayer with sermon; 11:30 p. m., M ; anight Eucharist, choral celebration. Monday, December 25, Christmas — 11:00 a. m., The Holy Communion, choral celebration. Tuesday, December 26, St. Ste phen’s Day. Wednesday, December 2" —St. John Evangelist. Thursday, December 26—Holy In nocents. 11:00 a. m., The Holy Communion, plain celebration. Friday, December 29 —6 p. m., In tercessions. A cordial invitation to all Edenton is extended to be present at these services. The Rector celebrates t-he eighteen th anniversary of his ordination to the Holy Diaconate on Holy Inno cents’ Day. HOME ON FURLOUGH S. Sgt. Thomas C. Byrum, who has been in England with a bomber squadron, arrived in Edenton late last week to spend a few days’ leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Byrum {Attractive Displays Convey Christmas i { Spirit In Edenton I Streets Again This Year | Minus Multi-colored Lighting Though Edeftton’s streets are not ! decorated with vari-colored lights : this year, the Christinas spirit is re ! fleeted in the windows of stores, J some of which are particularly at i tractive. Os course, what Christmas | merchandise is available is pretty generally displayed in most of the windows, but in Several instances decorations are especially attractive. Possibly the most attractive is Campen’s window, where a miniature pipe organ was installed by H. A. | Gampen, and as Christmas carols are heard over a loud speaker, the “or ganist” goes through the motion of i playing the music. | The Police Station, too, is very j attractive, where a beautifully deco j rated Christmas tree and yard j adorns the King Street window. ! Upon it also are several gifts which will be given to John Sutton and Ar thur Byrum in the annual Christmas “solicitation." Two other very attractive windows are at the USO Club and the Albe marle Restaurant, where the plate glass is divided into small panes and at the coruers cotton placed so that it has the effect of snow whipped in the corners and along the sides dur ing a snow storm. While a damper, more or less, ap pears to be put on the Christmas spirit due to war conditions and many being away from home and loved ones, those who remain go about their duties courageously and, come what may, continue to look for ward to the Yuletide season, again hoping that this will be the last | Christmas when men will be at each j other’s throats and instead families J will be united and able to celebrate j the day of days. j Christmas Pageant At Methodist Church Next Sunday Night In the Methodist Church Sunday night at ”:30 o'clock, the young peo ple will present a Christmas pageant entitled ‘On the Bough of the Christmas Tree.” The entertain ment will take the place of the regular churcn service. In connection with the program, White Christmas will be observed, and those attending are requested to bring a present which will be distri buted among the needy in 'he com munity. At the close of the service the usual gifts will be presented to the youngsters of the church school. _ Church school will be held at 10 o’clock Sunday morning. Street Department Off An Extra Day In keeping witii the general obser vance of Tuesday next week as a holiday, employees of the Street De partment will also enjoy an extra day to celebrate Christmas. Trash and garbage will be collected all over town Saturday and the business section will .be cleaned up after the stores close, but no further collec tions will be made until Wednesday morning. Tile extra day has been granted due to a faithful group of employ* ees, who have been called upon for several months to do more than their share of work, due to the shortage of help. Bank Closed Tuesday . By Proclamation Os Governor Broughton Though officials of the Bank of. Edenton had planned to be open for! business next Tuesday receipt- of a! proclamation by Governor J. M. Broughton designates Tuesday, De cember 26, a banking holiday, there fore no banking business may be transacted on that day, according to the North Carolina law. The local institution will, therefore, be closed from Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock until Wednesday morning. In part, the Governor’s proclama tion reads: “. . . I hereby designate Tuesday, December 26, 1944, as a banking holiday. During such period of holiday, all the ordinary and usual operations and business of all bank ing corporations, State and National, in this State, shall be suspended, and during such period no banking corporation shall pay out or receive deposits, make loans or discounts, transfer credits, or transact any other banking business whatsoever." Edenton Police With Aid Os Other Officers Solve Mystery Os Safe Stealing i U -t |_ Precaution _| Edenton’s police have recently adopted a rather unique system as a precaution to curb the pos sibility of automobiles being j ■ ).. stolen. Systematically they in- ! . sped parked cars and if the key i ; is found in the switch, it is re moved and taken to the police < station. A note is left in the car . to the effect that the key can be secured at police headquarters. . In one day recently Chief of I’olice J. R. Tanner reports hav ■' ing found 29 keys in automo | biles whieh had been parked in , j the business section and no one in the cars. Drivers of automo , biles are urged to remove the switch key when leaving their cars. t Junior Red Cross j Drive In Chowan ■ Ahead Last Year ■ Mrs. Buckley Reports i Contributions Total- I ing $165.95 Mrs, Eleanor Small Buckley, chair ! man of the Junior Bed Cross, re-; . ports a successful membership cam- Mpaign recently completed. Member . ship fees during the drive amounted , to $165.95, which compares with .$149.45 last year. Mrs. Buckley re pori-s. that the highest contribution per room was made by Miss Edna Goodwin's room at the Edentun school, and Miss Marguerite Muth’s l room at Chowan High School. Miss Goodwin’s room contributed $11.35, and Miss Muth’s room $10.45. The various contributions reported by Mrs. Buckley fellow: Edenton High School, Miss Baulina ! Hassell, Miss Mary Lee Copeland and Mrs. Bessie Shepard. sponsors,] ' $77.75. I Chowan High School, Mr.-. Thus. >! W. Elliott, sponsor, $41.75. ’ | Edenton Colored School, -Mrs; San- i 1 ; atoria Reeves, sponsor, $27.45. Rocky Hock Central School, Miss Ada Morris, sponsor, $6.90. Center Hill Elementary School, 1 Miss Jane E, Gilliam, sponsor, $3.10. White Oak Elementary School, Mrs. Roxanna Diggs, sponsor, $3.00. 1 Warren Grove Elementary School, G. 1,. Parker, sponsor, $2.00. Hudson Grove Elementary School i Mrs. T. S. Morris, sponsor, $1.50. | .! Green Hall Elementary School,. | Chas. L. Falton, sponsor, $1.50. i Britt Elementary School, Mrs. An- | nie C. Blair, sponsor, SI.OO. Mrs. Buckley is very well pleased with the result of the drive and de- 1 sires to thank all who helped in anv way. —— I Christmas Eve Midnight j High Mass At St. Ann’s j In solemn, joyful celebration of the 1944th anniversary of the* incar- j nation at- Bethlehem of Jesus Christ, j , the Son of God, the Most Holy Sacri- ' . fice of the Mass will be offered : three times Christmas, the first! high mass (“Missa Cantata Dc An- j gelis”) of the angels starting at j midnight (between Christmas Eve' and Christinas Day), with hymns, ! “Silent Night, Holy Night,” pre- I ceding “Adeste Pi deles” for offer- j tory, “Sleep, Holy Babe,” at the end ,of benediction of the Most Blessed ; Sacrament, which will immediately follow this mass, sermon on “Christ 1 is Bom in the Mass,” Holy Commun j ion at all the masses; the second ! mass beginning at 9 and the third at 11 Christmas morning in St. Ann’s Catholic Church, stated the Rev. Father Francis J. McCourt, pastor. A miniature reproduction of the scene in the stable the first Christ mas will be on display in St, Ann’s from the midnight mass daily 7 a. m. to 6 p. m., to January 13, Octave of . the Epiphany, Little Christmas. | Everybody invited -.to view the Crib and attend all St. Ann’s services. Confessions will be heard iSatur , day 7:30 p. m. to 8:30, Sunday 10 to 10:55 a. m., 4to 6,7 to 10, 11 to 11:55 p. m., Monday 8:30 to 8:55, and 10 to 10:55 a. m. Mass every Sunday at 11 a. m., the subject next Sunday being "Divorce Is Impossible.” V This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.50 Per Year Daniel and Fred Muse, White Men, Confess To Crimes i’remouslrecord Pair Under Questioning Since Arrest De cember sth Edenton police, together with offi cials in Elizabeth City and Hertford, FBI and SBI agents and the High way Patrol solved the mystery in connection with a series of safe rob beries when two brothers, Daniel Muse and Fred Muse, white men 31 and 23 years old, respectively, confessed that they stole safes at the Charles 11, Jenkins Motor Com pany here, the Towe Motor Company in Hertford, the Red Meat Market in Elizabeth City, and at McCoy's Place at Kellogg’s Fork, near Sun bury. The two men were arrested in Edenton on December 5, when their suspicious actions were noticed by members of the local Street Depart ment and were reported to the po lice. after they were seen changing sweaters in the shrubbery at the Baptist Church. The police found the two men crouched behind the steps of the church, evidently awaiting nightfall to make an attempt to get ! away with another safe. They had been separated, one be ing placed in the local jail and file other in the Windsor jail and by separate questioning their stories were, so much at variance that offi . cials became convinced that they had a pair of criminals. Various stories were checked which failed to correspond and little by little evi dence was gathered until there re .iiiai.iied; little. doubt hut that the two men wore implicated in the robberies. They refused to admit any part n the crimes, however, until Thurs day night when they confessed to all of the robberies except in Eliza beth City. They even accompanied the p dice to Gates County to find the safe from McCoy’s Place, which ; had been dropped in a well near an 1 abandoned house on the Virginia ■ Road. They also confessed to steal ing two automobiles in Norfolk, Va., lone of which was parked near the ; Edenton Laundry the day they were arrested. The men were given a preliminary hearing in Recorder’s Court on Fri day morning and were ordered held by Judge Marvin Wilson for the next term of Superior Court. The same day, however, they were taken to Elizabeth City to be placed in the custody of Deputy Marshal 'X. C. Flora, who. together with [ Sheriff VV. 1,. Thompson of Pasquo - tank County, took them to Wilson. After being placed in the Wilson jail j the brothers confessed to the Eliza-' | beth City robbery and told where the safe could be found. It was later recovered from Knobbs Creek just outside Elizabeth City. Both men have previous police re [ cords, having recently returned to i Elizabeth City after serving sen tences in connection with an at- I tempted robbery of the Albemarle Laundry in Elizabeth City in 1941. Oiiief of Police J. R. Tanner said i solving the case was the best piece 1 of work, as the result of cooperation of ofticers, he has ever experienced. Mrs. Inglis Fletcher Speaker PTA Meeting Tuesday, January 9th Mrs. Inglis Fletcher will be the guest speaker at the January meet ing of the Edenton Parent-Teacher Association, which will be held in the high school auditorium at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, January 9th. Superintendent John A. Holmes has changed the schedule of classes so that every high school student will have an opportunity to hear Mrs. Fletcher. The public is cordially invited to be present. Masonic Lodge Calls Off Tonight’s Meeting Due to only a few more days elapsing before Christmas, the meet ing of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., has been called off tonight (Thursday) by T. B. Williford, the master. The regular meeting will be held next Thursday night, however, with degree work scheduled to be conferred.
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